If I'm not mistaken, you believe that children who believe they want it should never be delayed, let alone denied by anyone. Not their parents. Not by anyone in the medical profession. Never.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I know you guys like the strawman of unattended piles of free hormones in the park but my preferred policy solution is prescriptions dispensed on the informed consent model, which in a decent world would be seen as the compromise position between OTC HRT and medical gatekeeping
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
Are you okay with a qualified physician dispensing a professional opinion to someone that their dysmorphia is something they will probably grow out of?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
Fuck you no, because it further stigmatizes those of us for whom it doesn't go away, and potentially makes us deal with decades if dysphoria. The medical professionals I have interacted with around transness have been so shitty, with only a few exceptions.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
And don't act like doctors "professional opinions" on matters like this aren't strongly affected by the transphobic society they are a part of. Transness isn't the fallback plan, there is not only nothing wrong with being trans, it can be pretty dang awesome.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
Doctors saying "don't worry about it, you'll go back to normal" just positions those of us who aren't cis as defective. I reject this wholesale. There is nothing about working with assigned gender nonconformance as a child that should be approched from the position of +
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
+ " maybe if we don't do anything it will go away". There is no harm in helping trans kids get to a point where they can make decisions about the changes in their body.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
in fact, even if kids do decide to not pursue transition (whatever that means in this context?) wouldn't giving them a chance to explore their identity and their options give them a better outcome anyway? One where they don't have to wonder as much?
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When did you realize you were woke?
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I've never realized I was "woke" because that way of using the word is only employed by racist assholes
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